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A pilot project on stress management, taken up for police personnel in Madurai district, was successful in bringing peace to their homes.
The extensive training has transformed life for 40 police families by injecting positive energy into them and empowering them with coping skills. The experiences shared by those who attended the orientation programme on Saturday indicated that the spouses of police personnel are able to realise the tough nature of policing job and that they have decided to be an army of change agents.
The Madurai District Police and M.S.Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation jointly arranged the training programme on stress management for personal effectiveness for police personnel from July 6.
At the valedictory function held on Saturday, the spouses and family members of the police personnel became emotional as they openly said peace and happiness were scarce in their homes all these days. "I can understand the work pressure of my husband. Since he comes home late, we used to quarrel often, but this training made our life peaceful," said Sandhya, wife of a policeman.
Another policeman's spouse, Mahalakshmi, said during the programme the resource persons helped the couples improve understanding. Sami, one among the participants, stated that he could correct his mistakes and think positive.
Another participant, Soudhamani, was all smiles since tension at home became a thing of the past.
While Selvarani was thankful to the Police Department for helping her end problems at home, another woman, Jothilakshmi, said she feels sympathetic for her husband whose duty timings were irregular.
K.S.P.Janardhan Babu, director (programmes), M.S.Chellamuthu Trust, said 40 policemen were selected to undergo stress management training along with their wives and children.
After pre-assessment tests, they were taught how to cope with stress, manage relationships, handle emotions, make decisions, solve problems, communicate effectively and set goals in life. A basic health check-up was also conducted for them.
V.Balakrishnan, Superintendent of Police, Madurai, said the success of this pilot project would be explained to the State Government through a set of recommendations. "Only when the police personnel are relaxed and their families are supportive, the public can benefit," he added.
N.Mohan, Dean, Government Rajaji Hospital, said job-related tension spoilt inter-personal relations everywhere and stressful life was always dangerous.
B.T.Bangera, Managing Director, Hi-Tech Arai, welcomed the initiative taken by the district police. "The police are the pulse of the city. My appeal is to institutionalise stress management training at the State level," he said.
A.Mylvaganan, Additional Superintendent of Police, expressed hope that the training would be a turning point in the lives of police personnel.
Senior faculty of Madurai Medical College Dr.Advaitham and Dr.C.Ramasubramanian, State Nodal Officer, Mental Health Programme, also spoke.
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On this trip, I visited Namibia between 14-Oct-2009 and 30-Oct-2009 and I travelled with 4 other people.
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Recruited in 1918 to work for the NAACP, Walter White--a lightskinned African-American man who can pass for white--is sent undercover to investigate a lynching, all the while confronted with personal issues of identity. From the author of the award-winning novel Play for a Kingdom comes a masterful story inspired by the early life of Walter White, a dynamic but now all-but-forgotten figure in the history of civil rights. The twenty-four-year-old White was recruited in 1918 to work for the NAACP. Just weeks after he began, a horrible lynching took place in a small town in Tennessee and White was sent there to pose as a traveling salesman. His mission was to stay as long as it took to pry the secrets out of the town. Dyja paints a complex portrait of shifting identity as White, a blonde, blue-eyed, and very light-skinned African-American, moves back and forth between white and black, working his way into both the good-old-boy network of the town and the besieged African-American community. Forced to rethink his assumptions about what really happened in the town of Sibley Springs the night of the lynching, he struggles to establish guilt and innocence in a foreign landscape, confronting as well his own questions of identity. When another lynching looms, White must decide if he will risk everything to save a black life and the white souls of Sibley Springs.
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Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia | ||||||||||||
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A review by Jean-Louis Trudel
What is deep time? One could describe it as the object of a viewpoint that is increasingly needed
by our civilization as it attempts to act over longer and longer time spans.
In this book, Benford explores several ways in which we are attempting to make a lasting mark on the
Universe, not always intentionally. And he points out that making things that last is a way of
communicating effectively through time. What will we say to our descendants? What are we already
saying to them?
First, Benford tells the tale of a task force in charge of creating an effective marker for a US
radioactive waste site, one that would last 10,000 years! He was a part of the effort and
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of their search for an anti-monument, one that would frighten and repel future visitors, is a
thought-provoking treat.
The next section also features Benford's involvement, this time in the effort to create a diamond
disk to be sent to Titan with the Cassini mission. This is not a success story, but Benford's account
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crafting messages meant to last. Unlike the waste site marker, the Cassini disk had to convey a
message not only to future humans but to possible aliens. Doomed by disagreement among the
collaborators, the Cassini disk never flew, showing how difficult it can be to tackle deep time perspectives.
The third essay involves Benford's proposal to create a last gasp, representative library of the
lifeforms threatened by extinction and habitat destruction here on Earth. The sampling technique he
defends has proven controversial, but he points out how the disappearance of so many species on our
watch, so to speak, is already sending out a message that will resonate, loud and clear, for millennia to come.
The book ends with a general discussion of an even clearer message: the whole of Earth, as we will
leave it to our descendants. Benford emphasizes that human meddling has already shaped the world we
live in. For millennia now, hunting, agriculture, and the use of fire by humans have remodeled the
landscape and rewritten the book of nature. However, the legacy of industrialization may be even
more far-reaching. Benford focuses mostly on the greenhouse effect, acknowledging the complexity
of the phenomenon and the two-edged nature of many contributing mechanisms. Some solutions are
obvious, like planting more trees, but others are more controversial, when they involve so-called
tinkering with Mother Nature. Yet, survival may dictate that we develop a deep time view
appropriate to an active stewardship of the planet.
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the deep time viewpoint itself.
Though Benford attempts to link these four sections through the common theme of deep time, the
result remains somewhat disjointed. The first part of the book deals with concrete projects,
while the second part is more of a call to arms. Nevertheless, while it may not be a weighty
tome, I believe it is an important one and I hope that it will find readers willing to consider Benford's arguments.
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McConnell Air Force Base will receive $500,000 after finishing runnerup for a national honor awarded annually to military installations for all branches of the service.
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Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., won the Air Force category and will receive $1 million. McConnell and Keesler were the two finalists out of 166 bases considered for the 2012 Commander-in-Chief's Installation Excellence Award.
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Governance and failure: on the limits of sociology
Malpas, J. and Wickham, G. (1995) Governance and failure: on the limits of sociology. Journal of Sociology, 31 (3). pp. 37-50.
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Failure is an ubiquitous and central feature of social life. Yet much sociological inquiry focuses not on failure but on success. This paper adopts a sceptical approach to sociological theory, advancing an account of the necessary limits of sociological inquiry and defending the idea of the primacy of failure on two fronts: first, through the examination of a sociological approach currently developing around the Foucaultian idea of 'governmentality'; and second, through a more general philosophical consideration of the connections between failure and practices of governance or control.
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Serials are becoming more popular with virtual publishing houses such as Web Fiction Guide, Novelr, Eat Your Cereal, Denver Cereal and others, publishing authors who may not even need an agent to make their pitch.
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The two Joes were the subject of a June 2011 OC Weekly cover story, which detailed how they fell afoul of the police when a disgruntled employee accused them of stealing electricity to facilitate a grow operation, and how undercover cops using actual doctor's recommendations to smoke cannabis made repeated marijuana purchases at the trio of collectives in an effort to build a pot-sales case against the two men.
A news story that will appear in the print edition of the Weekly tomorrow details how the presiding judge in the criminal trial, Charles D. Sheldon, originally ruled that the defense couldn't even mention medical marijuana, but was overturned by an appellate ruling a day before trial began. Among other things, Sheldon allowed prosecutors to erect a screen between jurors and the audience, overwhelmingly made up of mostly elderly former members of the collective, including some in wheelchairs; he also frequently yelled at defense attorneys Christopher Glew and Allison Margolin, thus providing ample grounds for an appeal.
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Perfecting a shot for an animated film or a special-effects sequence is a very incremental process. Every time the director tweaks the lighting, an enormous amount of computation is required to render the new image, and that rendering process can take a very long time.
Now a team of computer scientists from MIT, Tippett Studios, and Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) have devised a system that reduces the amount of time required to render a preview image from nearly an hour to seconds, allowing directors to fine-tune the lighting in a shot immediately. ILM tested the system, called Lightspeed, on the movie Transformers, and it plans on deploying it throughout the whole company in the next couple of weeks.
"We are still rolling it out," says Christophe Hery, the lead engineer of research and development at ILM. "But potentially, what used to take three or four days to produce might be compressed into a single day."
The team's solution is based on the fact that lighting designers are working at the end of the production process. Since everything else in the image has largely been set, much of the data involved in the rendering process is redundant. So, to accelerate the process, Lightspeed identifies and then compresses the data that is not changing in the image each time it's rendered so as to avoid redundancy.
Next, Lightspeed takes advantage of high-performance graphic processors (GPUs). Traditionally, when a lighting designer renders an image, that work is performed entirely on a central processing unit (CPU). The Lightspeed system, in contrast, caches the redundant data on the CPU and performs the remaining computations for re-executing the lighting programs on the GPU. Managing the data in this way makes previewing an image orders of magnitude faster than running it entirely on the CPU.
"The first big step is eliminating work that doesn't have to be recomputed every frame," says Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, a computer scientist at MIT and a Lightspeed team member. "The next big acceleration comes from taking that data [that] lighting designers are editing, and then mapping it onto a processor that can execute it much more efficiently."
The Lpics preview system used by Pixar Animation Studios employs a similar method to render preview images quickly. But Lpics requires a programmer to manually go through and identify what data in an image is going to change and what isn't when making different preview images. Moreover, this process has to be redone for Lpics anytime the lighting programs change to capture a different lighting effect, which often happens during production.
The other improvement over Lpics, according to Ragan-Kelley, is that the Lightspeed preview system supports additional effects, such as motion blur and transparency, in which more than one point in a scene contributes to the color of an individual pixel.
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Mr TONY SMITH (Casey) (19:14): The Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 5) Bill 2012 was introduced about six weeks ago by the Assistant Treasurer. I will run through each of the schedules and I understand that following my contribution it will be the wish of the House to adjourn debate on this particular bill until a later date, as a result of discussions between the whips.
There are a number of schedules within this bill and I will briefly go through each of them. The first schedule, which the Assistant Treasurer outlined in some detail back on 19 September, relates to the conservation tillage refundable tax offset. This offset was introduced as part of the government's carbon tax legislation. It applies to eligible non-till seeders that a taxpayer uses or installs ready for use in primary production, from 1 July this year, and it will be repealed on 1 July 2015. The offset is available only to primary producers who incur expenditure on new equipment called a no-till seeder. This type of equipment has been given a tax break, because it is claimed it will achieve minimal soil disturbance or damage, increase soil nutrients, protect against wind erosion and reduce water loss—it is referred to as non-tillage farming. A conservation tiller offset will reduce income tax for primary producers who spend money on this new equipment, the non-tiller seeder.
Back on 19 September the Assistant Treasurer went to great lengths to explain the amendment contained within this tax law amendment bill. Essentially, the amendment turns on whether this piece of equipment is purchased either as a standalone tool or the combination of a cart and the tool. It is my understanding that this amendment is simply to clarify and broaden that to remove what was a narrow definition.
In a completely unrelated schedule, schedule 2 deals with the mature-age-worker offset. It will phase out that offset. The mature-age-worker offset was first introduced by the Howard government in 2004, with the very clear and sensible objective of increasing the incentives for older Australians to stay in the workforce. As a result of this legislation, the offset will be closed for taxpayers born after 30 June 1957. The phase-out of this tax offset will therefore effectively be a tax increase for older Australians, who will not have access to this offset that was introduced previously. As the government has made clear, they do not support the offset. They have different plans for trying to increase worker participation. Whilst the coalition thinks the introduction of the mature-age-worker offset was a good measure, Labor, transparently, has not supported it, and this schedule makes that very clear.
I will deal with schedule 3 towards the end and deal with it on its own because it relates to some procedural issues. Schedule 4 deals with fuel blending exemptions. Currently, the blending of certain excisable fuel products is treated as manufacture and must occur only at licensed premises, and the manufactured product is subject to excise. There are specific legislative exemptions, for example, where the duty is being paid at the same rate on each component of the blend. These amendments will repeal those specific exemptions. Instead, a power will be given to the relevant commissioner to specify whether the manufacture of fuel blends will not be treated as an excise manufacture and therefore not be subject to the excise.
Schedule 5, which is a common schedule in our tax law amendment bills, deals with deductible-gift recipients and adds a new organisation to the list of deductible-gift recipients, namely, the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust of Australia, which has been established to raise funds for the commemoration of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. The trust will collect funds for the purpose of delivering charitable projects for the support and advancement of individuals of all ages, with a focus on the poor and disadvantaged, through supporting the work of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust in the UK. The gift must be made after 31 October 2012 but before 1 July 2015, reflecting the period of fundraising for Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee.
The final schedule deals with the wine equalisation tax. It amends the entitlement that a producer of wine may have to a rebate of the wine equalisation tax. The producer rebate scheme entitles wine producers to a rebate of 29 per cent, which is typically the price for which the producer sells the wine, excluding the WET and the GST. It replaced the previous rebate scheme for producers, known as the cellar door rebate, and is available to New Zealand wine producers. I am advised that in a submission in 2008 to the Treasurer the Winemakers' Federation of Australia advised of excessive claiming of the producer rebate, resulting partly from double dipping in relation to the rebate on blended wine. The opportunity currently exists for multiple rebates to be claimed on the same quantity of wine.
A report just a year ago by the audit office into the administration of the wine equalisation tax recognised the risk to revenue and recognised that risk as high. Industry representatives informed the Australian National Audit Office that the practice of multiple blending led to inappropriate accessing of the rebate, and the Australian National Audit Office recommended legislative clarification. So, when a producer uses wine acquired from another producer to blend or further manufacture wine, schedule 6 of this bill, as detailed by the Assistant Treasurer and in the explanatory memorandum, will reduce the rebate entitlement of the producer who blends or further manufactures wine, unless they receive a notice from the earlier producer in the supply chain. Using the approved form, the earlier producer may notify the later producer that they are entitled to a producer rebate of the nominated amount for the wine that they supplied. The later producer's entitlement to the producer rebate will then be reduced by that amount. Where the earlier producer does not notify, the later producer's entitlement to the producer rebate will be reduced as if the earlier producer had been entitled to a rebate on the quantity of wine supplied.
I will come back to schedule 3. Schedule 3 relates to a compliance regime for gaseous fuels. This schedule will be the subject of an amendment from my colleague the shadow minister for energy and resources and the member for Groom to excise this schedule from the bill. He will be speaking when the debate on this bill resumes, presumably tomorrow or a later day. But essentially the coalition is opposed to the sections within the schedule that relate to the record-keeping requirements for gaseous fuels on the basis that it is a new regulatory burden for the sector and will create cumbersome record-keeping requirements.
The amendments proposed by the government are more onerous and more strict than the current Excise Act's obligations on conventional fuel-sellers and others obliged to collect excise. However, the coalition does not oppose the measure dealing with forklift trucks. Item 20 in schedule 3 treats a forklift truck used off public roads as not being a motor vehicle for the purpose of the Excise Act. Consequently the use of gaseous fuels in forklifts will be treated as non-transport fuel.
In other respects, schedule 3 will increase the red tape burden, especially for small businesses handling LPG. The coalition considers the existing provisions in the Excise Act regarding record keeping, officials' access to premises and imposition of penalties for the supply of gaseous fuels subject to fuel tax relief for a transport use to be sufficient. The compliance regime measure was not previously announced. It appears that there has not been any consultation carried out prior to introducing these proposed amendments, and the amendments have emerged as a consequence of the introduction of the Taxation of Alternative Fuels legislation last year. They are deemed necessary by the government in order to get around administrative difficulties created by the new legislation, because gaseous fuels have a wide range of non-road-use applications and are often retailed from the same vendor—for example, LPG for vehicle use and for small bottle refilling.
These amendments are clumsy at best. They go beyond and are more onerous and more strict than the current Excise Act's obligations on conventional fuel-sellers and others obliged to collect excise. As I said, they will increase the red tape burden, especially for small businesses handling LPG. The shadow minister for energy and resources and the member for Groom will speak in detail and move an amendment with respect to schedule 3 when this debate resumes. But, as I said at the outset, the coalition variously supports or will not oppose the other schedules. I understand it will be the wish of the House to adjourn the debate after the conclusion of my contribution—which is now.
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The terms liberal Anglo-Catholicism and liberal Anglo-Catholic (also Liberal Catholic) refer to people, beliefs and practices within Anglicanism that affirm liberal Christian perspectives while maintaining the traditions culturally associated with Anglo-Catholicism. The word "liberal" in this context refers to both theological and social liberalism.
Social and theological liberalism[edit]
The social liberalism of liberal Anglo-Catholics can be seen in an association with Christian Socialism.[1] With regard to Christian Socialism, Frederick Denison Maurice in 1849 said, "I seriously believe that Christianity is the only foundation of Socialism, and that a true Socialism is the necessary result of a sound Christianity."[2]
Generally, liberal Anglo-Catholics will be social justice-minded.[citation needed] Jonathan Daniels, a seminarian of the Episcopal Church in the United States who died during the African-American civil rights movement, is a modern martyr for liberal Anglo-Catholics.
Liberal Anglo-Catholics allow the entirety of modern knowledge and research to inform their use of reason.[citation needed] Science and religion, for instance, are held to be legitimate and different methodologies of revealing God's truth.[3] This also directly affects the liberal Anglo-Catholic's reading of scripture, church history and general methodology of theology. A metaphor is that theology for liberal Anglo-Catholics is a "dance" that allows people to slowly grow in an understanding of God.[4]
In the UK the Affirming Catholicism movement is a home to many liberal Anglican Catholics. Westcott House, Cambridge is a Church of England theological college in the tradition of Liberal Anglo-Catholicism.
- ^ Socialism and Christianity, by Percy Dalmer, London, the Fabian Society, 1906.
- ^ Maurice, F. D., The Tracts on Christian Socialism, London 1849.
- ^ Muray, Leslie A., Liberal Protestantism and Religion, Greenwood, New York, 2007
- ^ Johnson, Jay Emerson. Dancing with God: Anglican Christianity and the Practice of Hope. Moorehouse Publishing. New York. 2005.


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My wife and I had a terrific cruise on the Carnival Valor out of Puerto Rico. We arrived in Puerto Rico from Georgia a day early on Saturday and stayed in the Marriott Courtyard Miramar. Saturday night, we had a pleasant dinner in old San Juan.
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We returned to the ship, enjoyed dinner in the Washington dining room.
Day at sea. Fun shows. Comics during the family show were good. Very good juggler show, magic show was fun and enjoyed both stage shows. We didn't do all these on Tuesday, but wanted to mention this here. The lido deck pool area often had loud music, so we went to other parts where it was more peaceful. The pools were clean but the hot tubs were crowded.
The excursion was a taxi tour of the island. Lots of nice and interesting stops. Took a tour of the Mount Gay Rum factory.
Took a land and sea tour to the Pitons. Beautiful views, lush vegetation. Two dollar local beers on all the islands.
St. Kitts, we took another taxi tour and did some shopping.
St. Maarten took a ride to Orient Beach. Beautiful water cheap umbrellas and terrific sand. Some topless women - the French side of the island.
Our room was comfortable, staff was pleasant and helpful, food was good and the ship had plenty to do. My wife and I had a memorable time, met some nice people and would recommend this trip to others. Wa also enjoyed the exercise room. Less
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Career Opportunities and
Education in Chemistry
Chemistry, as a central science, helps us understand the universe around us, see
our place in that universe, and respond to the needs of human society. Further-
more, chemistry figures importantly in the economic fabric of our country. Hence,
the pursuit of chemistry provides a fulfilling and rewarding career for young people
interested in science and in service to humankind. We shall discuss here these
career opportunities and the educational pattern associated with chemistry as a
Today's public image of science is still heavily influenced by the reverberating
impact of the World War I! Manhattan Project that brought us the atomic bomb and
the Apollo Project of the 1960s that let us set foot on the Moon. But embedded in
this glamorous, highly organized, and well-publicized setting, there are several
scientific disciplines that have somehow maintained the highly personal character-
istics of classical human creativity. (How many poets were needed to write
Hamlet? How many artists to paint the Mona Lisa? How many scientists to
propose relativity?) Chemistry is one of these disciplines. Somehow it has
remained an individualistic and highly competitive activity that depends upon
prolonged individual initiative and personal creativity. Scientific publications in the
field generally involve only two or three authors.
Chemistry has remained, worldwide, an innovative "cottage industry" that has
been remarkably productive. Its continuing success is shown by the increasing rate
of discovery of new compounds (see Chapter I, p. 2), despite the fact that at any
given moment the molecules easiest to synthesize have already been made; the
harder ones remain. This evidence shows that chemistry in the small project mode
is an extremely effective enterprise, both here and abroad. Thus, the term cottage
industry describes a highly individualistic and personally creative activity rather
than a group one. These characteristics impart a healthy competitiveness and a
liberating freedom from accepted dogma. They make chemistry an ideal field in
which to nurture a young scientist's originality and initiative. He or she can be
intimately involved and in control of every aspect of an investigation, selecting the
question, deciding on the approach, assembling and personally operating the
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Employed Scientists and Engineers in Selected Field (1980)
Chemical Biological Physicists and
Employer Chemists Engineers Mathematicians Scientists Astronomers
Business/Industry 86,640 63,710 42,190 39,350 22,400
Academia (Ph.D. 26,940 3,980 52,230 95,240 24,110
Bunting) (7,800) (1,665) (9,140) (28,135) (7,995)
Federal 9,075 2,025 12,580 16,160 6,585
State and local 7,940 1,015 4,985 13,685 1,175
Other nonprofit 7,660 580 4,510 22,620 3,115
Military 1,560 510 1,190 1,520 590
Other 1,985 580 1,185 1,525 835
Total 141,800 72,400 118,870 190,100 58,810
U. S. Scientists and Engineers 1980, NSF Report No. 82-314, Table B-12.
Academic Science: Scientists and Engineers, January 1981. Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation.
Detailed Statistical Tables, NSF Report No. 82-305, Table B-5. 1981. Washington, D.C.: National Science
Science, Engineering, and Humanities Doctorates in the United States: 1981 Profile. 1982. Table 1.5A.
Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences.
equipment, collecting and analyzing the data, and deciding on the significance of
the results.
The contention that chemistry responds to the needs and desires of our society is
strikingly verified by the statistics on the number of professional chemists employed by
industry. Table VIl-1 compares the number of scientists and engineers employed in
various fields. The first line shows that In 1980, business and industry employed almost
one and a half times more chemists and chemical engineers than the sum of the
mathematicians, biological scientists, physicists, and astronomers. Of course, this
pattern is the sum of many individual hong decisions by industnes that exist and
survive only if they market products needed by the people of the world. These figures
imply that a young person thinking of entering a professional career in the chemical
sciences can be assured that there is "somewhere to go."
This contrast is equally significant if we look at employment of professional
scientists at the Ph.D. or doctoral level. In 1981, business and industry employed
24,320 Ph.D. chemists, more than the sum of Ph.D. mathematicians, biological
scientists, physicists, and astronomers combined. This figure indicates that indus-
try employed 56 percent of the 43,200 working Ph.D. chemists. (The corresponding
percentage for the four disciplines above is 21 percent.) Academic institutions were
the next largest employer; in 1981, 14,775 doctoral chemists were so employed, 34
percent of the total.
Because of the clear potential for positive economic return from chemical
research, the chemical industry invests heavily in its own in-house research. In
1982, the Chemical and Allied Products industries invested about $4.2 billion in
corporate research and development, of which about $380 million might be
classified as basic research. The rest is applied research and development of new
products. These statistics again indicate that research in chemistry pays off in
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future processes and products used by society. They also show that industnal
laboratories furnish an important arena for chemical research.
College preparation for a professional career in chemistry begins with a 4-year
degree leading either to a Bachelor of Arts (AB degree) or a Bachelor of Science
(BS degree), with a major in chemistry in either case. The former degree tends to
place more emphasis on the humanities and to carry somewhat more flexibility.
Both of these characteristics are of significant value, as discussed below.
Because of the basic character of chemistry and its centrality among the sciences,
introductory chemistry classes are not dominated by majors in chemistry but, rather,
by students thinking of careers in fields adjacent to chemistry. A knowledge of the
atomic makeup of the world around us is a necessity in most advanced courses to be
taken by the student entering the health and biological sciences, physics, engineenng,
geology, oceanography, and even astronomy. This implies that the course content
encountered in the first 2 years of chemistry tends to be general and suited to a wide
range of student interest. This is undoubtedly an advantage to every individual taking
the introductory courses. One of the problems of modern higher education is the
tendency to force specialization too early. The college curriculum should permit easy
movement toward more suitable career goals as the student's breadth of experience
and maturity provide a firmer basis for these important life choices. Introductory
chemistry courses tend to permit such mobility.
Of course, the last 2 years of a major in chemistry provide the focus needed to give
personal experience with the major areas in chemistry. Laboratory courses occupy a
special place in this inductive science, and access to modern instrumentation (in-
cluding computers) is a crucial element. These laboratory activities also furnish a
fascinating exposure to the challenging puzzles that are day-to-day fare in chemistry,
as wed as the colorful changes that take place in flasks and in nature. Next, it is
important that the budding scientist be well grounded in the pnnciples that guide a
chem~sts's thinking: molecular structure and bonding, based in quantum mechanics,
and the delving force for chemical change, based in chemical thermodynamics. Finally,
there should be opportunity for participation in undergraduate research.
However, it is important to recognize that we are in a penod of increasingly rapid
change in which boundaries within science are disappeanng. Each student should
ensure that his or her curriculum leaves ample flexibility to engage in studies of
adjacent disciplines such as biology, molecular biology, solid-state physics, geochem-
istry, and the environmental sciences. Equally important is the need for time reserved
for courses in the humaruties. No single remark is heard more often from experienced
scientists (and employers) than the observation that ability to communicate�to write
and to speak clearly is as important as any other component of a scientific education.
THE DOCTORAL DEGREE IN CHEMISTRY (Ph.D.)
There is no room for doubt that the higher levels of professional activity in
chemistry depend directly on the educational experiences embodied in the Ph.D.
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program. The dependence is rooted in the rapid pace of scientific progress over the
span of a professional chemist's career. This pace requires ability to cope with and
develop new ideas the heart of Ph.D. thesis work in chemistry.
Graduate education in chemistry provides a valuable, career-molding interaction
with a mature scientist who is working productively at an active research frontier.
There is a significant one-on-one aspect to the research director-graduate student
interaction. In a highly personalized way, the faculty member win encourage individ-
uality and creativity while directing the student toward problems likely to be solvable,
interpretable, and significant to the advancement of existing frontiers. As the student
matures, he or she assumes more and more responsibility for selecting the next
question to be addressed and the experimental approach to be followed, for eliminating
obstacles as they appear, and for interpreting results as they are obtained.
At the same time, the typical chemistry graduate student will be a member of a
group working with the same research director on related problems based on
similar experimental and theoretical techniques. This group might include several
other graduate students and postdoctoral students. The transfer of ideas and
techniques within this peer group is another vital and rewarding part of graduate
study in chemistry.
Currently, a large proportion of Ph.D. degree recipients continue their educational
preparation by conducting one or two years of postdoctoral study at another Univer-
sity, a National Laboratory, or in industry. This, too, has become an important part of
the chem~st's career development. It lets the student broaden horizons by venturing
into a field different from the thesis work, by interacting with other productive
researchers at a different locale, and by assuming more complete responsibility for the
course of the research program. The combination of close codeg~al collaboration with
a research-aci~ve professor, followed by more independent postdoctoral research
work, identifies chemistry as an excellent prescription for the encouragement and
nurturing of individual creativity in talented young scientists.
Chemistry Doctorates in U.S. Education
Table VIT-2 shows the number of U.S. degrees awarded in chemistry for the
penod 1960 to 1980. It is not to
be assumed that most of the
Ph.D.s have progressed
through the Master's degree;
quite the opposite, the M.S. is
for many their final graduate
degree, usually received 2 to 3
years after the Baccalaureate.
The larger fraction of the
Ph.D. candidates enter gradu-
ate school with a 4-year Bachelor's degree, and they complete the Ph.D. between
4 and 5 years later.
Table VIl-2 shows that in recent years about 1/7th of those receiving Bachelor's
degrees continue on to receive the Ph.D. For Chemical Engineering this fraction
would be I/12th, for Biological Sciences, I/13th, and for Mathematics, 1/27th. The
TABLE VII-2 Number of Degrees Awarded in
Chemistry, 1960-1980
1 7796
1 7733
1 7757
1 9551
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larger fraction for chemistry reflects the direct value of and need for graduate
education in the chemistry profession.
The trend in the annual number of Ph.D. degrees awarded has changed dramatically
over the last two decades. Dunng the 1960s, the number of Ph.D.s in chemistry
doubled, peaking at 2,200 Ph.D.s in 1970. Then there was a decline that seemed to level
off by the end of the 1970s at
about 1,500 Ph.D.s per year.
Now, it is rising again. These
long-range trends are difficult to
interpret because they span a
penod of complicated demo-
graphic, social, and economic
changes. They do, however, in-
dicate that the decline in Ph.D.s
dunng the 1970s has ended, and
Ph.D. entry into chemistry is
again nsing, presumably in re-
sponse to positive career expec-
2 ooo
Educational Patterns for
~ 1 500
1 000
, ~ ~ 1 ~ ~
~ it.
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1 965 1 970 1 975 1 980
Ph.D. DEGREES IN CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
While considerable variation
exists, a typical chemistry Ph.D. graduate experience involves three essential ele-
ments: teaching, course work, and thesis research. In many graduate schools, teaching
is required for one year, sometimes including fellowship holders. The rationale for this
element has several components: teaching is a valuable educational experience for the
graduate; it helps him or her evaluate an academic career as a career goal, it provides
financial support, and it aids chemistry departments in meeting their large role in
undergraduate education for related fields. From the point of view of financial support,
teaching can thus provide approximately 20 percent of the support usually received by
a chemistry graduate student.
There are several qualifying steps that may be required for successful completion of
doctoral study in chemistry: entrance examinations, course grades, cumulative exam-
inations, preliminary examinations, thesis submission, and final defense of thesis. Few
schools would use ad of these, and of those used, there is considerable variation in
relative importance. Generally, the most significant are cumulative examinations taken
during the first 2 years (if used) and the preliminary examination taken dunng the
second or third year. Of course, the ultunate completion of Ph.D. study depends upon
submission of a suitable research-based thesis. A thesis is a written account detailing
substantial research accomplished by the graduate student. Almost always, portions of
the thesis are published in the research literature.
In addition to payment for teaching duties (as Teaching Assistants or TAs), most
chemistry graduate students have either won fellowship financial aid (National
Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, etc.) or they receive Research
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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES AND EDUCATIONINCHEMlSTRY
Assistantship (RA) financial aid ("stipends"). A number of these stipends are
supported by industrial grants, but the majority are drawn from federal grants to an
individual faculty member to support the graduate students under his or her
direction. At the major research universities, essentially ad of the chemistry
graduate students receive continuous stipend and tuition support throughout their
graduate study. For the national average over the period 1974 to 1980, the best
available data indicate that between two-thirds and three-fourths of U.S. doctoral
students in chemistry currently receive either TA or RA stipends.
A chemistry degree provides entry to a variety of fulfilling and rewarding careers.
Many undergraduates choose the chemistry major to obtain a good foundation for
employment and/or advanced studies in a variety of adjacent fields. Chemists are
needed in such fields as environmental protection, the health sciences (including
toxicology), the biological sciences (including genetic engineering), transportation
industries (including aviation), and the semiconductor industry. Of course, the
chemical industry offers a wide variety of jobs to help it produce and market its
products and to help it discover new products needed by the public.
A second career goal of great social importance is in teaching. The need for
science teachers at the high school and middle school levels is probably greater
than in any other teaching area. An individual with a baccalaureate degree in
chemistry who goes on to obtain a teaching credential (usually one more year of
advanced study) is assured of a choice among teaching jobs.
Research is the major career avenue pursued by those who go on to an advanced
degree (MA or Ph.D.~. Research in chemistry is camed out in venous arenas:
industrial laboratories, private (not-for-profit) laboratories, national or other fed-
eral laboratories, and in our Universities and Colleges. Progressively through this
sequence, research tends to be increasingly directed toward the fundamental
understanding of nature and less toward practical or goal-onented problems. In the
United States, more than anywhere else in the world, the most fundamental
research is conducted in the Universities, thus coupling the basic research function
to the education of the next generation of scientists. Thus, it continuously renews
our pool of scientific personnel with young scientists whose thesis research work
has probed the edges of our knowledge.
ACS Information Pamphlets
"Futures Through Chemistry: Charting a
Course," 12 pages, March 1985.
"Careers in Chemistry: Questions and
Answers," 4 pages, May 1984.
"Chemical Careers in the Life Sciences," 18
pages, 1984.
"Careers in Chemical Education," 13 pages,
Spring 1982.
"Graduate Programs in Chemistry," 39
pages, 1983.
Pamphlets available from:
American Chemical Society
Educational Division
1155 16th Street, NW
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quote:Originally posted by goneisland2When there is not a price on an item, I am apt to say loud enough for the LYS folks to hear, "This must be free, there is no price on it." Amazing how fast they tell you how much it is!Admiral AnnieAboard S/V Island ThymeIsland Trader 38Dog River AL USA
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quote:Originally posted by lemonsWell, cranberrie, we're generally a pretty calm group around here. We may make jokes, but we're not apt to actually demand and scream. We just get frustrated sometimes. I'm sure that's happened to you. We just let off steam here. Don't think we're a bunch of loonies.lemons of missouri
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